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Temperance of "blizzarded" train
is thus described by the Bismarck (Da-
kota) TriJune: Gas the train came in,
with her two handsome engines putting
and snorting and glistcning, she was ad-
mirea by a crowd of Bismarckers, who
are ever ready to applaud the beautiful
and picturesque. The most interesting
sight of all was the white-capped snow
p!ow which came just ahead of the train.
The p,ow was loaded with several tons
of pure white material, and the engine
was gigantic moving ic' Gle, of curious
shapes and exquisite beauty. The drive
wheels, the boiler, the bell and the smoke
stack were handsomely plated with ice
and snow, and the cab was perfect lit
tie crystal palace"
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

SEVEN oil Of birch distilleries in Connect.
cut are making wintergreen.
The 1,GO9 convicts in Sing Sing prison eat
twenty-one barrels of flour daily.
The estate left by the late Charles Francis
Adams is estimated at 81, ,00o.
EDWARD GOULD, the younger son OF Jay
Gould, is an expert stenographer.
LAST year moro than 100000 emigrants
went to the Argentine Republic from Italy.
STAMP COLLECTING cranks pay $400 for a
postage stamp of the Island Of Mauritius for
the year 1S47
A NATIONAL military drill and encamp.
ment is announced to take place at Wash.
ington next May. The prizes to be offered
will aggregate s26,5O0
Docs ran a fine deer into the yard Of Ed.
Cole, on Big River, Missouri. One Of Eds
dogs caught it, and while he held it Mrs.
Cole killed it with an axe.
A BOTTLE Of purple ink was mistakenly
opened for port wine at Detroit supper, and
fourteen guests filled their mouths with the
liquid in pledging the host. -
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An English writer, discussing the low
condition of English agriculture, says
''thc great difficulty is to get men to
work on a scale suited to their means.
At present the custom is universal for a
man who has the means to do justice to
100 acres of land to try to work 800, and
SO starve himself and the farm too"
This, adds the New York Times, is
sound sense aud great economical
truth, for waste of labor is waste of
money and material, and where there is
waste there is want and loss, which must
be paid for without any return. The
above remark is applicable to our own
circumstances, for, on the average it is
a positive fact that thousands of Amcri
can farmers would be better off were
they to cultivate we'll one-fourth as much
land as they now work in poor and
proftless manner, and so produce as
much from ten acres as is now made
from forty, and at one-thlrd of the
cost
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COERCION IN IRELAND,

The Government Proclafms its Anti
Rent Plan of Campaign.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has for
mally proclaimed tho Anti-Rent Campaign.
The proclaiming Of the Anti-Rent Campaign
in Ireland is accepted by the leaders of the
Irish National League as step on the
British Governments part toward the
suppression Of the League. The funds Of the
League have already been transferred to
France, in order to prevent their seizure by
the authorities. and the rent moneys depos-
tied with trustees will also be Sc ,reted to
guard them against government designs.
The government proclamation warns all
persons that the melting of tenants to refuse
to pay or to withhold rents is an illegal act,
and that the anti-rent movement, BY what.
ever means carried out, is criminal con.
splracy. In addition it says that all moneys,
receipts or documents given or received for
the purpose OF such conspiracy are liable to
seizure, and that parsons in whose possession
the same are found shall be arrested.
This sweeping measure is the prohibition
OF Lord Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ire
land, and assent to its promulgation was OBJ
tanned at a meeting OF the British Cabinet
Council
The Unionist papars now clamor for the
Immediate suppression Of the National
League, and even demand that trial BY Jury
be suspended in Ireland if the juries refuse
to convict thu advocates of tho anti-rent
movement.
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A lad who recently brought his father

A lad who recently brought his fathers
schooner safely into port at St. Johns,
New Brunswick, unaided by any other
person, is youth who should be dear to
the heart of Oliver Optic and the editors
of young peoples magazines. 1t seems
that of the original crew of three who
were on the vessel the mate was knocked
overheard and lost and the skipper let
the schooner in boat to search for the
unfortunate seaman. In so doing he was
himself separated from the ship and
obliged to make his way as best he could
10 land. Meanwhile the lad took the
rudder, and in spite of head winds and
heavy seas managed to make harbor.
Here is material for an entertaining tale,
entitled: "The Boy Navigator; or,
Alone at Sea-" which should have wide
circulation.
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4 N LEl SE OF 1 RE.
A Wo u der Sentence Of.
ath Respited. &
Story E Crime for Which She
Wasd heed to be Hanged

Cover has granted reprieve until
Februa1 Mrs Roxalana pruse, whose
execute 9ild otherwise have taken place
on Dec III 90, in the courtyard Of the
county Sf Herlimer, N. Y. In giving
his rea for his action, the Governor
is impeM by the simple fact that the
womausSecutio was fixed for an un-
seasonabfime, a day Intervening between
the twoFeatest holidays Of the year.
Christina and New Years Detailing his
reasonsS granting the respite the Governor
says thfhdence shows that while MIR. Druse
was atSEtable his wife went into another
room shRot revolver. She sent her boys
out, aid sr daughter Mary then put arope.
aroun k fathers neck, and the prisoner
fired therevolver ut him once or twice,
wouAdinf him so that he fell over side.
was insthe chair Sha then compelled
her nepkw Frank to take, the revolver
AM fire It her husband, and when Druse
roled ofae chair she seized an axe and hit,
hin onsth head with 1t, hs exclaiming:
oh, RbSl don't, and she continued hitting
Him on th&ueck until she chopped his head
lf-sevsrAg it completely from his body.
She then caused the head, as well as
the bodyto be taken into the par!
lOi1 oug 10y eshS
evening thbody was cut up with an axe
and was brned il the stove. She threatened
to kill hebys if they told what had oc.
CURED, bnhel all her husbands clothes and
made everjpossible effort to conceal the
crime. canipg the ashes in the stove where:
the body Nd bsen burned to be taken up
and throw in swamp, and the revolver:
and ave tope thrown in a pond, and had
kilograms $nt to friends in other places maxi
ing false hd misleading inquiries as to her
husband compelled the boys to tell every
one that hr husband had gone away from
home, shsaherself telling her neighbors
falsehoods 9of every description as to-
her husbatfs whereabouts During the even
ing, whileArs. Druse and Mary were burn
ing the bdy in the parlor, the two boys
were amutng themselves playing checkers in,
an ad adjoinitgroom where the murder had been.
committed thus showing the unconcern and
utter lack \ feeling Of the whole family. Mrs.
iDruse had previously made threats against
the decea}l and boasted that she would be rid
of him soreday. The reyolyerhai been pro-,
cured udbrought to the house under peculiar
and suspicious circumstances, indicating feio-
NOUS purHses. These and other facts, almost
too horribe for description, mark the case as
plain oBS of deliberate and premeditated
murder. There seems to be scarcely miti-
Iatiug circumstance surrounding It.
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The organ grinders of New York city
have a trade-union composed of eight
hundred and eighty-two members. They
parcel out the city into routes, as news
paper carriers and milkmen do, and
when man dies or goes home to Italy
his route is sold to the highest bidder,
the proceeds going into the general fund.
The organ tunes are graded, according
to the routes, the classic organs taking
Fifth avenue, Murray Hill and other
high-toned localities, while the simple
and more popular tunes are sent to the
humber sections of the city. The
grinders average So or 81 a day in pen
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
ouSof is to write a comic opera instead.

EoUNot is to write comic opera instead
otan orahrio. -. - 49,
Mr.. GILBERT says that the title Of his nea
olira is lot yet decided upon. - q
lDELlA PATTI has been singing her way
acpss thscontinent to Mexico. -. ~
tIss ADELAIDE DErcHoN, the reader, has,
beA cauying everything before her In the
laIie cites Of Scotland.
1LLFR's new comic opera. The Faga--
bod. )" kthe success cf the season IN Berlin. 3
It sdicules official life In Russia 4
HE NE of Louis Riel, the Canadian REBEL
ha.ben dramatized, and will be produced
at be Theatre Royal, In Montreal. g
EESRY MARTEAU,. French boy twelve.
yeas Of ige, has burst forth in Germany as
a musical prodigy. He plays the violin.
JfDIc gets $500 night in Paris for sing
ingln .La Belle Helene" while Schneider:
w6ecreated the famous role, only got SS.
Tie movement to induce ladies to remove
thei hats in theaters has taken definite shape.
In NwY York and Boston, and there sccms mo-
dout il will now become general
,TRsaverage organ grinder in England
earl about 81 day, and but for the time
lost i travelling from city to city he would
avertgs IS over and above his expenses ~
SIf OPERTI, the widely-known composer
and irector, died OF congestion OF the brain
a shot time since ut Leadyille, Col, where
he wa on tour with the Clio Company. ::
Nm. HAsTRE1TER, last years prima donna
Of tdsAmerican Opera Company, is travel
ing eaund the provinces in England as q.
mefnt1r of Colonel Mapleson's organization.
MIS GRIswoLD, the niece OF Bret Hartes
who hs lust made her debut in comic opera
wah The McCaull Company IN Chicago, Is
!. nu novice, but has sung with success In
Enope .. -.. .>-T.
IL HIGGINsoN, of Boston. has given
saO00to the Symphony Orchestra, OF that
cit. for the purchase OF frstclass lnstru.
msns for those members who cannot afford
to.bvythsn. .
MiExSER PALMER thinks "Jim the PEN
mas, will have the longest run at the Madi--
son Sauare Theatre, New York, Of any play
ever produced in America. II Is now in the
secotd year Of it's career in London.
Mi. JAMES E. MURDOCH, the veteran actor,
app1ared recently in "The Stranger" in one
Of Tie suburbs of Cincinnati. He was sup
ported by amateurs. Mr.. Murdoch is past
seventy years Of age, AMI this was his nrst
appearance on the stage in some time.
Tx the month Of December some great
theatre fires have occurred. Dece nber
1921, the first regular dramatic theatre IN
London was destroyed by fire; December
D. 1871, the Richmond Theatre was burned
md seventy-fve lives lost; December 10,
Bk, the Park Theatre, New York, was
Iuined. -
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spects.

It is estimated that the material con-
tanned in the Chinese wall would build
wall around the world six feet high and
two feet thick. Its cost was probably
equal to that of all the 100, 900 miles of
railroad in the United States. A nation
that would begin and complete such
stupendous work as that rather than
fight its enemies from its boundaries lacks
the elements for aggressive advancement.
The Chinese wall is On everlasting expo
nent of the Chinese character.
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Araminta Hollinger, an old colorcd
woman, has just died in Wheeling, West
Virginia, OF the age of ninety. She was
considered the best cook in that region
of country. and prepared the big dinner
given Lafayette when he was entertained
there. She also superintended State din
ncrs given to Clay, Webster and other
notables in times past. She never claimed
to have been George Washington's nurse
and was also remarkable in other re-
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MANY SAILORS LOST.
A Whaling Vessel Wrecked in San
Francisco Bay.

n w tVS5CI "ICShCu III Suu
Francisco Bay.
At2:39 o'clock, the other morning, the
whaling bark Atlantic was driven ashore
a mile and a half below the Cliff House, San
Francisco, and went to pieces in few min.
utes, not spar remaining standing. Wreck
age was strewn along the beach for three Or
four miles. The Captain and mate, with
eight or ten men, were saved out OF tie
forty-two men on board.
At the tina of the disaster there was q
dense fog, aud heavy sea was running. The
Atlanta had left San Francisco for cruise
in the South Pacific, after which she was to
proceed to the North. Th, Atlanta was al
old vessel, having been built in 1851, and was
of 251 tons register. She was owned by J.
and W. r. Wing, of New Bedford, Mass,
and co nmauded by Captain Thomas F. War
ren, who said:
"We were towed out to SEQ yesterday.
There was heavy swell and no wind. and
the currents were SO strong that we could not
get out of the swell. We letgo both anchors,
but the sea swept our decks, and was so heavy
that the anchors could not hold. We
dragged ashore, aud struck at 80 A. y:
The men were being washed on during all
this time by the immense waves that washed
over lis. The vessel went to pieces
an hour and half alter she struck. There
was very heavy fog and it was pitch dark.
We succeeded In lowering two boats, but
both were capsized before getting two boat
lengths from the ship. The first boat con-
taiued 2. H. Doty, first mate, Anton Perry
third mate, and four or FIVE Of the crew
That was the last we saw Of them. In tia
second boat were myself. Second Mat
Ring, and five men. When we We,
swamped the sea carried us in until V
touched bottom, when we dra yged ourselvt
ashore. We made no signals of distress, .
it was too foggy for any to be seen"
The Captain and crew numbered forty-tV
persons, aud only eleven persons were know
to have been saved. 1t is charged that
large portion of the crew were intoxicate
and that twenty-five men were below slee
ing off the effects of liquor when the vess
struck and thus met their deaths.
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Definitions of the Day.

Before the mast-The bowsprit.
Wash-Day-February twcnty-second.
A fish horn-Cod-liver OIL.
A cold cut-A cake of ice.
Lit out-The kerosene-kindling SER
want.
A s;gn of prospcrity-$.
A bird fancier The cat.
A -party-The Chinese.
A smokc-stack-A package of cigar
cites.
Highly incensed The smoking-car.
Tripped up-Thc Alps.
A volume of smoke-The history of
2ittsburg.-Puck.
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Home.

Home never seems more sac:ed and
pleasant than after separation frcm it.
Distance from it only enhances its
value-intensife its sacrcdness.
There is no swecter place in this world
than home. All of life, love and hope
arc bound up in it.
We may enjoy ourselves temporarily
elsewhere, but our greatest joys will ever
cluster around home.
John Howard Payne was right: IT'S
''home, sweet home "-St. Louis Maga
:ine. - -.
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beverage,

An agent for a parlor organ says 1t
pays to give an organ outright to some
farmer in a neighborhood where there
are no instruments. AS soon as it is
known that he has one every other
farmers wife exclaims: "Well, if that
isn't cheek! If that family can buy an
organ, we shall certainly have one, and
we'll get better one than they did. !"
From fifteen to twenty sales are the re-
Sult
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Eocef3n.

In conformity with an agreement with
England, the German government has an
nexed several Of the Solomon Islands.
DURING q heavy gale at Marin, Spain, q
church was unroofed, and the flying timbers
killed five persons.
SALvAToR MoRTABELLI, a native OF
Malta, has begun seventy:two days fast
at Philippeville, Algeria He was formerly
in the British navy. Being shipwrecked
once he was cast upon desert island and
tasted no food for seventy-two days.
A GLASGOW company has received orders
to build a steamer which shall slIrpass in
speed and size any vessel afloat.
A BAND of seventeen smugglers who were
hiding in cave near Ficenza, Italy, were
killed by an avalanche.
THE steamship Lianelly, sailing from Liv-
erpool has foundered at Holyhead, England.
Twelve persons were drowned.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States

MORE than five acres of land above a coal
mine in Shenandoah, Penn, caved in sud-
denly, throwing about sixty houses out of
place, driving upward Of hundred families
into the street. and causing O loss of more
than S500l0. The wrecked houses were Sit
uated above coal mine.
CHRISTIAN SCHAU a merchant tailor of
Erie, Penn, in a drunken frenzy attempted
to kill his wife, murdered one grown
daughter and fatally wounded another.
THE will of the late Samuel j. Tilden is to
be contested by q nephew. George H. Tillen,
who objects to those provisions which give
the bulk of his uucle's portion for the endow-
ment Of public institutions
McQUADE, the New York Doodle Alder
man convicted of taking bribe, was sem
fenced on thu Goth to seven years inlprison-
ment and to pay fine of S5,OU0.
THE Rev. Silas Wiggin, Of Sutton, Vt,
aged seventy-6ve years, committed suicide
by hanging.
ALDEN GOLDSMITH. the famous horseman
who brought out and developed the great
trotter Goldsmith Maid, died the other day
at Blooming Grove, N. Y, in his sixty
seventh year.
THE 22Gth anniversary of the landing OF
the Pilgrim Fathers was celebrated i'll Boston
by the Congregational Club, the prinelral
speakers being Governor Robinson and Hon.
James G. Blaine. Banluets in celebration
of the day also took place in New York,
Brooklyn and other cities.
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THE POWERS ARMING.
Significant Preparations in Franc
Germany and Italy.

Uneasiness is felt in Paris over therapldi
with which the French Government IS "o'
ing to place the armament of France in t
completest condition possible. Ihe St;
manufactures of arms and ammunition are
being worked to their utmost capacity. II
repoIted from Rome that Italy IS armir
.Adyices from Berlin state that Germany
increasing her troops in Alsaee- Lorraine.
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DURING the year ended on December 1,
3,0lS, III foot passengers crossed the Brook
lyn Bridge and 24,04,2H persons were car
ried in the cars. Tho receipts from tolls
were S743. $50. II. The total number of pas
sengers using the bridge from its opening tt
December l is 65, ,427, S36.
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Washington


WARNING has been sent out that the coun-
terfeit 500 United States silver certificate
issued in 1888 has again made its appear
auce.
CoyFIRMAT1oNs by the Senate: Abner B.:
Williams Of Arkansas, to be a member OF
the Utah Commission; Daniel J. Campan to
be Collector of Customs at Detroit, Mich.
Postmasters-KittieB Bo ,twick, Wesson, Miss:
Willis j. Beach, Litchfield, Conn.,; Willis
Lang, Vadosta, Ga. c. B. Peguei. Paris,
Texas; Orval A. Manviile, Whitehall, N. Y.
SALARY expenses of the Senate during the
past fiscal year were: Salaries AMI mileage
of Senators, 1854 ,6357 salaries Of officers and
employees, s'3'44 200. Over $4,000 were e1-
pended for newspapers and stationery, S2o,-
QUO for miscellaneous items, and s2t,0p Tor
special select committees.
The President has approved the oct retir-
ing Vice-Admiral Rowan and Rear Admiral
Wortlen with the highest pay ct their
grades.
The President has pardoned Tampa,
I.owish aud Hietitet, three Pima Incians un-
deryoing sentence of five years. i:nprison-
ment in the'AriLoIia Penitentiary for muir
derous assault on two white men in chat Ter
ritory in 1883.
CONGRESSMAN REID, Of North Carolina,
has been missing long time and is believed
to have gone to Canada. He is in financial
difficulties.
TaE House Committee on the Judiciary
will report adversely on Mr.. Swinburnes
bill to erect United States penitent:ary.
THE Pension Appropriation bill as report
ed to the House provides for total expen-
diture of SIT, ,2254 800. The estimates were
s76,25I,500, and the appropriation for last
year S1G,O75,20O.
THE name of James Matthews (coloredl to
be Recorder of Deeds for the District OF Co
lumbia has again been sent to the Senate, al
though once elected by that body.
COMBINATIONS by the Senate: Postmas-
ters-Mary McAtee, Bardstown, KY; B: F.
Church, Calvert, Tex. John McQusid, Clin-
ton. Mass. W. s. :hrock, Receiver OF Pub
lie Moneys, Lamar; Colonel A: +. Ar6uckle,
Register of the General Land Office, Denver.
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South and West.

THE people Of Texarkana, Texas, took
from Jail aud hanged man named Howard,
who had brutally treated his child-Tife, his
cruelty eliminating in branding her flesh
with q red-hot iron.
JoKN G. SWELLING, Of Franklin County,
Ca, his wife anl three children, tie Oldest
aged six years, were murdered by Frank
Sanders, who fired the dwelling after COM
mitting the diabolical crime He was ar
rested and confessed. A crowd seized Sanders,
conveyed him to the scene of his crime and
burned him to death.
TH1RTY-FIvE persons were injured by an
explosion in gas we'll at Kokomo, Ind.
FREDERICK ". PIrXIN, native Of Con-
necticut, elected Governor of Colorado in
1878. died few days since in Pueblo, Col,
aged forty-ni years.
PEACOCK BROTHERS, Of Colorado City,
Texas, have mada an assignment of all their
cattle and ranch interests. Liabilities about
S303,000.
V1LoN1A, Ark, has been partly destroyed
by fire, the work of incendiaries.
CoUNTERFEITERS are flooding thu North
west with bad money.
WILLIAM MUSSEL was taken from the
Eaton Ohio Jail by crowd and hanged:
He had killed Daniel Christlnan, an aged
farmer.
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A newly:discoverel Mexican foweris
quite a wonder, if reports be true. 1t is
said to be white in the morning, red at
noon and blue at night; and is further
credited with emitting perfume only in
the middle of the day. 1t grows on a
tree Of Sie Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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stosEpH ARMOUR, brother of the million
he pork packer of Chicago, left $10o, 0oo, on,
IDS death, for the establishment of kinder
cSrten and free dispensary. with physician,
H charge. Phil D. Armour, the surviving
b ]fother, added $780, to the fund, and the
rlission has been dedicated. The cost OF
Maintenance will be about $4,000 Per an
MIN. --t..
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TA London Lancet records the case of
o girl who had attacks resembling deli
riaE tremens from the act of chewing
tea leaves. Science believes that many
persons could be cured of their dyspep-
sia and of palpitation of the heart by
discontin uing the use Of this favorite
heverape
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The omlnous fact is stated that the
navigation of Lake Champlain is so in
jurcd, owing to the cutting down Of the
forests, that access to some cf its chief
ports is difficult, and that every year the
lake is becoming more shallow.
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EGGS and poultry command better price
In the cities and mining cam9s of Colorado,
take it the year round. than in other place in
the United States Eggs are said to be
worth thirty-fve cents dozen in the Denver
fCol) markets
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ONE Of the largest stores in Paris claims
have sold more than 81 ,000, 900 in gloves
American visitors the past year, outside
tie wholesale orders from Importers